Our annual celebration of the Lansing arts community.
Each year, the Arts Council brings together Lansing’s growing arts community to kick off the holiday season at its annual Holiday Glitter & Applause Awards. This popular event brings together area artists and their supporters in celebration of the arts scene in the Metro Lansing area.
Holiday Glitter & Applause Awards traditionally welcomes more than 200 guests and serves as a celebration of the arts. It also provides the Arts Council the opportunity to honor artists, supporters and leaders in the Capital Region with our annual Applause Awards.
The aim of the Applause Awards is to recognize individuals, businesses, organizations and other advocates who have made significant contributions to the arts in the Capital Region through their leadership, commitment, vision and support.
Ted Sondag Individual Leadership Award
The Individual Leadership Award recognizes an individual in the Capital Region who has made significant contributions to the arts or to the mission of the Arts Council through their leadership, commitment, vision and support.
2019 Winner: April Clobes
Business Leadership Award
The Business Leadership Award recognizes a business or corporation for their leadership, commitment and vision in support of the arts or to the mission of the Arts Council through contributed know-how, significant financial or in-kind support or development of exemplary alliances that have provided valuable support to artists and/or arts and cultural organizations in the capital region.
2019 Winner: Lansing Board of Water & Light
Civic Leadership Award
The Civic Leadership Award recognizes the significant contributions of an elected or appointed individual/organization (including city, village, township, county or downtown development authority) through their leadership, commitment, vision and support of arts and culture in the Greater Lansing region.
2019 Winner: City of Lansing Mayor Andy Schor
Individual Artist Award
The Individual Artist Award recognizes an individual who lives in the tri-counties who exemplifies leadership, quality and an expansive work portfolio/resume in any of the following mediums: visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, and/or the design field, who has received local, statewide, and /or national acclaim and has made significant impact on our community through the practice and production of his/her art form.
2019 Winner: John Dale Smith
Arts and Cultural Organization Award
The Arts & Cultural Organization Award recognizes non-profit and public organizations and/or programs within the Capital Region that are of high artistic quality and serve to enhance life in our community through the arts, culture or creativity. The award pays special attention to both long-standing programs and organizations that have played a consistent role in the community and new organizations and programs that meet a previously unmet community need or focus area.
2019 Winner: Lansing Symphony Orchestra
Arts Educator Award
The Arts Educator Award recognizes the work and dedication of an arts educator (elementary, secondary, college/university, and/or community instructor) in helping and mentoring organizations and individuals (youth and/or adults) to uncover a greater capacity to create, connect and deepen artistic pursuits and relationships with their community.
1029 Winner: Dionne O'Dell
Creative Community Award
The Creative Community Award recognizes significant achievements and projects that exemplify best practices in creative placemaking by any of the following or a combination of the following: individuals, nonprofit organizations, corporations, local municipalities, neighborhood associations, commercial associations, school and/or any other entity. Award winners will have contributed to the making of great places where ideas, leadership and persistence play a vital role in creating vibrant, thriving and livable places in our region.
2019 Winner: Greater Lansing Association of Realtors
Applause Award nominations are now closed until 2020.
The Scott Gillespie Company
Terry Terry
Capital City Film Festival
Ben Graham
Mark Mehaffey
George Orban and Rae Ramsdell
Mayor Virg Bernero, City of Lansing
Friedland IndustrIes, Inc.
CharlotteRising
The Wharton Center for Performing Arts
Brian Whitfiled
Jeff Croley
Tom Ferris
Keys to Creativity
Laura Gajewski
East Lansing Arts Commission
Chad Badgero
Allen Neighborhood Center
Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau
Julie Pingston
REO Town Commercial Association
Tina Newhauser
Impression 5 Science Center
Craig Mitchell Smith
Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP)
Ingham County Board of Commissioners
John Loose
Business Leadership Award Lansing Community College Dr. Brent Knight
Civic Leadership Award Nathan Triplett Mayor of East Lansing
Individual Leadership Award Nancy & Gary McRay
Business Leadership Award City Pulse
Individual Leadership Award Joan & Jerry Mattson
Business Leadership Award Warmels & Comstock, PLLC
Individual Leadership Award Nancy Austin Dixon
Business Leadership Award Peckham, Inc.
Individual Leadership Award John & Beverly O'Malia
Business Leadership Award Jackson National Life
Individual Leadership Award Selma & Stanley Hollander
Business Leadership Award Sutton Advisors
Individual Leadership Award Walt Sorg
Business Leadership Award MSU Federal Credit Union
Individual Leadership Award Kevin & Lauri Draggoo
Business Leadership Award Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Individual Award Chuck Hillary
Business Leadership Award Lansing Community College
Individual Award Suzanne B. Mills
Business Leadership Award CATA
Individual Award J. Irv Nichols
Business Leadership Award Keystone Design Group
Individual Award Basement 5 Plus
Business Leadership Award City of Lansing and Lansing Board of Water and Light
Individual Award Pat Munshaw
Business Leadership Award General Motors Lansing Operations
Individual Award Bob Mellor
Business Leadership Award Parish Corporation
Business Leadership Award Saper Galleries
Individual Award Mary West
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development
George Orban and Rae Ramsdell
Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith
Don LeDuc and Susan Coley
Michigan Realtors
Lynn Donaldson Zynda
Redhead Design Studio
Pauline Sondag
Lansing Community College
Michigan State University Office of Government & External Relations
Bruce and Sharon Ashley
John and Patty Barnas
Michael Beebe and Gary Troia
Suzanne Brouse
William Dansby
Paul and Anne DeRose
Tom Ferris
Meegan Holland
Karen and Jerry Jennings
Suzanne B. Mills
J. Irvin Nichols
Brian McGrain
Jeff Overberg
Mary Overberg
Nikki Fowler
Dan Horn
Kelly Lamie
Lynne Tousignant
Jane Orewiler
John and Patty Barnas
Terry and Mike Carella
Jeff Magnuson and Amy Rickett
R.E. Olds Foundation
George Orban and Rae Ramsdell
Rachel Elsinga
Joan and Jerry Mattson